How to create customer without firstname and lastname in Magento 2 Api

Question

I am using magento 2.3.2 version.

I need to remove the Firstname and Lastname fields in the new customer creation/ registration API. I referred this link

Answer 1

Firstname and Lastname are mandatory fields for the customer, So you have to set some value for these fields during registration, at least some dump value like (-), etc..

So,if you DO NOT want to provide these two fields value during hitting the API point /V1/customers then you have to work on Magento\Customer\Api\AccountManagementInterface,Create a plugin on createAccount() and set some dump value to Firstname and Lastname to this field.

Plugin Class

<?php
namespace StackExchange\Magento\Plugin;

use Magento\Customer\Api\Data\CustomerInterface;

class AccountManagementPlugin 
{
    public function beforeCreateAccount(
        \Magento\Customer\Api\AccountManagementInterface $subject,
        CustomerInterface $customer,
        $password = null,
        $redirectUrl = ''
    ){
        // Set dump value to - to firstName and last Name
        if($customer->getFirstname() == null){
            $customer->setFirstname('-');
        }
        if($customer->getLastname() == null){
            $customer->setLastname('-');
        }       
        return [$customer,$password,$redirectUrl];
    }
}